The Balkans
In 1945 Tito wrote. ‘We mean to make Yugoslavia both democratic and independent’. How was this possible, asks Basil Davidson, for a war-torn Communist country in a world of super-powers? |
With the trial of the former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic due to begin, Nick Hawton reflects on his time reporting in a region where history is still used to justify war. Published in History Today, Volume: 59 Issue: 8
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John Etty questions whether Serb nationalism was an irresistible force that helped unleash the First World War. |
Steve Morewood investigates Anthony Eden’s frenetic diplomatic efforts to forge a Balkan front to save Greece from Nazi Germany and the controversies that resulted from his failed mission. |
Richard Cavendish charts the events leading up to King Zog I's coronation on September 1st, 1928. |
Markus Bauer hopes that Romania’s membership of the European Union will enable it to face down the ghosts of its troubled twentieth-century past. Published in History Today, Volume: 57 Issue: 2
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On May 21st, Montenegrins are being asked, in a long-delayed referendum, if they want to end their union with Serbia. James Evans explains the background to their momentous decision.
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Robert Johnson puts the decline of a once-great Empire into an international context. |
Roman Golicz looks at English attitudes to Russia during the Eastern Crisis of 1870-78. |
Richard Cavendish describes how King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia were assassinated during the night of June 10th/11th, 1903. |
April 4th, 1953
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In 1945 Tito wrote. ‘We mean to make Yugoslavia both democratic and independent’. How was this possible, asks Basil Davidson, for a war-torn Communist country in a world of super-powers? |
Jason Tomes looks at the reign of King Zog. Published in History Today, Volume: 51 Issue: 9
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In the 50 years after its opening in 1948 by dictator Enver Hoxhe, Albania's Institute of Archaology is now suffering from a funding shortage, but is still maintinaing its work and museum. Published in History Today, Volume: 50 Issue: 3
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Penny Young looks at the ambititious plans to reconstruct the celebrated Ottoman bridge in Mostar, destroyed by fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovinia.
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The sorry history of ethnic conflict in the Balkans, concluding that forgeign intervention has needlessly fanned the flames of nationalism. |
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